Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:30:53 -0500 (EST) From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) To: nappy@prmenet.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: DOS and FreeBSD Message-ID: <199610301430.JAA01787@elmer.ct.picker.com>
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Doug White: |On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Christopher Moore wrote: |> Could I run DOS on the first part of my Hard Drive and FreeBSD on |> the second? Or do I still need to get some kind of emulator. | |This is OK BUT BUT BUT FreeBSD's kernel must reside below the 1024th |cylinder of the hard drive. This translates to: if your DOS partition is |more than about 450mb then you will really need to watch your root |partition size. The cap is somewhere around 500mb depending on your disk. | |This is a BIOS limitation. If you're running with BIOS LBA, you can safely put part or all of the partition above cylinder 1024. Randall Hopper rhh@ct.picker.com
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